Rescue and Resistance

Extraordinary actions in times of conflict, including Righteous Gentiles, Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, and other individual or organized actions
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A Place to Save Your Life: The Shanghai Jews

22 minutes
Source: Filmakers Library

Seeking refuge from Nazi terror, some 17,000 Jews traveled to Shanghai, one of the few places that did not require a visa. Although a few Jews already lived in China, the Europeans found life there strange and difficult. Juxtaposing interviews with survivors with archival photographs, this film recounts the days when Jews lived in China under Japanese rule. Although the Japanese forced the exiles into a ghetto, they did not follow Hitler's extermination plan.

Library Resource December 15, 2009
A Protestant Town's Conspiracy of Good in Vichy France
(Christian Science Monitor, May 14, 2008) The article, "A Protestant Town's Conspiracy of Good in Vichy France," tells the story of a Protestant community that saved thousands, most of them Jews, from persecution by the Nazis.
Facing Today May 14, 2008
A Protestant Town's Conspiracy of Good in Vichy France
(Christian Science Monitor, May 14, 2008) The article, "A Protestant Town's Conspiracy of Good in Vichy France," tells the story of a Protestant community that saved thousands, most of them Jews, from persecution by the Nazis.
Facing Today May 14, 2008
ADL Pays Tribute to ‘Mexican Schindler’ for helping save 40,000

The story "ADL Pays Tribute to ‘Mexican Schindler' for helping save 40,000" describes an event where the Anti-Defamation

Gilberto Bosques Saldivar biography

Courage to Care: Gilberto Bosques Saldivar

 

Facing Today December 16, 2008
ADL Pays Tribute to ‘Mexican Schindler’ for helping save 40,000

The story "ADL Pays Tribute to ‘Mexican Schindler' for helping save 40,000" describes an event where the Anti-Defamation

Gilberto Bosques Saldivar biography

Courage to Care: Gilberto Bosques Saldivar

 

Facing Today December 16, 2008
America and the Holocaust Study Guide
This study guide accompanies the documentary America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference and offers a disturbing look at the choices Americans made at a time when the Germans were labeling, isolating, humiliating, and eventually murdering European Jews and others they considered "undesirable.
Publication January 24, 2008
Anne Frank in the World Exhibit Study Guide
The purpose of this guide is to prepare teachers and students to view the exhibition, Anne Frank in the World, 1929-1945, while incorporating perspectives and themes highlighted in the Facing History and Ourselves program.
Publication February 23, 2008
Armenian Genocide Lesson Four: The Range of Choices
Lesson Plan March 19, 2008
Armenian Genocide Lesson Four: The Range of Choices
Lesson Plan March 19, 2008

Armenian Genocide Lesson Two: We and They, the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire locked

Lesson Plan March 19, 2008
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